Project One - 100DaysofCode

Web Scrapping Program

This is a simple program that collects usernames from GitHub and returns a url to the Profile Picture of the user.

Background

This project is part of my #100DaysOfCode learning streak. I intend to write a simple python program each day. Each project would:

• be heavily commented for learning purposes;
• include a README file similar to this one;
• include an algorithm to solve it without code.

Algorithm

1. Start.
2. Install required libraries.
3. Create a variable to collect the username of the github account.
4. Concatenate the username to the github domain to create a complete url and store in a variable.
5. Send a request to the url using the appropriate library. Example of a request libray is requests in python.
6. Collect the content of the request and store in a variable using an appropriate library. Example bs4 from Python
7. Use specific tags and parameters to identify the src url that includes the link to the user's profile picture and store in a variable.
8. Print the variable.
9. Stop.

For more understanding, watch the full tutorial here from freeCodeCamp.org